Want to share Wednesday Readings or your other citation research on specific topics? If you have a WordPress site you can now install the Pleasant Viewer plugin. It will let you and others easily publish and share citations online. It is Open Source (GPL licensed) and free to use and distribute.

It is the result of the “Hack Your Church” hackathon at the U.C. Berkeley CSO this past weekend. Julian, Cameron, James and Gabriel all worked on the ideas. It uses Cameron’s cskit-rb library to retrieve citations. It’s still a little rough around the edges but works nonetheless. Check it out!

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The first hackathon (hopefully of many to come) was held at the Berkeley CSO (thanks for letting us use the building!) We ended up working on a new project called Pleasant Viewer, an Open Source WordPress plugin built on top of Cameron’s cskit framework.

Berkeley CSO

Starting with a blank slate

Some metaphysical preparation

It’s go-time!

Breakfast

Breakfast

Breakfast

Chicken & Waffles!

Ideas for Pleasant Viewer WordPress plugin

Ideas for Pleasant Viewer WordPress plugin

Hacking on the project

Resting

Whiteboard

Whiteboard

Pizza time!

Pizza time!

Working & singing

Hymn sing!

@jackl

Laptop

Singing

Coding

Pleasant Viewer plugin

cskit-rb

cskit-rb

cskit-rb

cskit-rb json output

First iteration of the plugin

Cameron

Coding

Recursion!

Recursion!

Plugin under development

Sharable citations!

More coding

Final whiteboard

Berekely CSO window

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{“number”:”1″,”lines”:[{“text”:”THE prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the”,”flyout_text”:null,”paragraph_start”:true},{“text”:”sick is an absolute faith that all things are”,”flyout_text”:null,”paragraph_start”:false},{“text”:”possible to God,- a spiritual understanding of Him,”,”flyout_text”:null,”paragraph_start”:false},{“text”:”an unselfed love. Regardless of what another may say”,”flyout_text”:null,”paragraph_start”:false},{“text”:”or think on this subject, I speak from experience.”,”flyout_text”:null,”paragraph_start”:false},

We’re really excited about Cameron’s work on writing an open source set of tools that will allow for studying, sharing and building new interfaces to the world of Christian Science text.

Check it out on his cskit-rb Github page. If you’re adventurous and nerdy, you might even see what you can contribute to the project. He’ll be presenting his work so far at the upcoming CS Hackathon at the UC Berkeley CSO, which we’re also going to be participating in. See you there?